Letter of Jeremiah 9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ People^[a] take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods, as they might for a girl who loves ornaments. ¹⁰ Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves, ¹¹ or even give some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. They deck their gods^[b] out with garments like human beings—these gods of silver and gold and wood